Creating a cross-runtime Twitter desktop widget

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Posted on: May 31, 2010 14:49:12 IST

Twitter provides an online tool to build a widget catering to your specifications. It allows you to create a widget showcasing your profile, one running a search query, displaying your favourites or a list. While this widget is intended to be embedded in a website or webpage, we can easily use it to create a desktop widget.

Visit the Twitter widget creation page at http://twitter.com/goodies/widgets and create a widget according to your specifications. When you are done configuring the parameters, click the “Finish & Grab Code” button to get the code for the widget.

The Twitter widget creator for websites. We will use the default settings but feel free to customize.

We are creating a profile widget. Enter the username. Click on “Finish & Grab Code”.

Here we have our widget code generated by Twitter.

Now we need to place this code in a a basic html page. For this, all you need to do is use a tool such as notepad or notepad++ and type in the following:

<html>
<head>
<title>Twitter Widget</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Insert the widget code here -->
</body>
</html>

Paste the widget code you just generated inside the body tag. If you save this file as a “.html” file and open it with your browser, you should be able to see the widget you created in action.

The Twitter widget running in a browser.

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